First I must give credit for knowing about this from having seen Laura Ingraham substituting for Bill O'Reilly. It's just one more story that has me shaking my head over what is going on in this country. I am beginning to wonder if everyone in government is stark raving mad.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, routinely releases dangerous detainees to the streets of America without warning the public. Over the past four years, immigration officials have largely without notice freed more than 8,500 detainees convicted of murder, rape, and other crimes, according to ICE’s own statistics, mainly because their home countries would not take them back.

Deporting illegal immigrants requires more than simply putting them on an airplane to their own country. People being deported need travel papers — such as a passport — like anyone else who travels abroad. If their native country refuses to issue the necessary papers , the United States cannot send deportees there. And the Supreme Court has said ICE cannot hold the immigrants forever; if immigration officials cannot deport them after six months, the court said, they should generally set the immigrants free.


If that weren't bad enough, the public cannot be informed these thugs have been released into our communities because, ...it would be a “clearly unwarranted invasion” of the immigrants’ privacy. This policy of protecting their identities has, at least in one case, led to a woman's murder, as even their victims cannot be told they are on the loose.

Not surprisingly those released engage in a host of other crimes including, in one case, the murder of a police officer, and in another the massacre of 5 people in their San Francisco home. Despite that, Federal officials are releasing people that they regard as dangerous and doing little to force recalcitrant countries to take their citizens back.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/12...VaxJ/story.html

Thanks to the "Boston Globe" for investigating and breaking this story but will bringing it to public attention really have any effect here in cuckoo land?

Pretty amazing stuff. It's almost like the government is acting against the best interests of its citizens.